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His Holiness Abune
Merkorios
Patriarch and Catholicos of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Native name
አቡነ መርቆሬዎስ
Church
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Appointed
1988
Term ended
2022
Predecessor
Abuna Takla Haymanot
Successor
Abuna Paulos (5th) Abune Mathias (6th)
Orders
Consecration
Holy Trinity Cathedral
Personal details
Born
Ze-Libanos Fanta
14 June 1938
Amhara Governorate, Italian East Africa (now Amhara Region, Ethiopia)
Died
3 March 2022(2022-03-03) (aged 83) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Nationality
Ethiopian
Denomination
Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Residence
Addis Ababa
Abune Merkorios (born Ze-Libanos Fanta; 14 June 1938 – 3 March 2022[1]) was an Ethiopian bishop and the fourth Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, elected after the death of Abuna Takla Haymanot in May 1988. Merkorios remained Patriarch for three years until 1991, when the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) overthrew the Communist military junta known as Derg in Addis Ababa.[2][3] After spending almost three decades living in exile, he was allowed to return to Addis Ababa and be recognized as Patriarch alongside Abune Mathias.[4]
^"Unifying Patriarch of Ethiopian Orthodox Church dies". Yahoo! News. AFP. 4 March 2022. Archived from the original on 24 March 2022. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
^Tolera, Assefa (4 April 2017). "Interrogating Religious Plurality and Separation of State and Religion in Ethiopia". Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review. 33 (1): 39–72. doi:10.1353/eas.2017.0002. ISSN 1684-4173.
^Haustein, Jörg; Østebø, Terje (November 2011). "EPRDF's revolutionary democracy and religious plurality: Islam and Christianity in post-Derg Ethiopia" (PDF). Journal of Eastern African Studies. 5 (4): 755–772. doi:10.1080/17531055.2011.642539. S2CID 59042446.
^Dickinson, Augustine (31 July 2018). "Decades-Old Schism in the Ethiopian Church Mended". Ethiopicist Blog. Archived from the original on 7 May 2021. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
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